BASIC WAGE CUT

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1933, Page 2

BASIC WAGE CUT

AGAIN IN AUSTRALIA.

(Australian Press Association.)

CANBERRA, January 28.

From February 1 the Federal basic Wage in Sydney will bo reduced by lid weekly to £3/6 /<. Other city reductions are as follows:

Eighteenpence in Melbourne to £3 9/4.

Eighteenpence in Perth to £2/18/1 One shilling in Brisbane to £2/15/8 One shilling in Hobart to £3/3/6.

Two shillings in Adelaide to £2/15/4. Thirty of the principal towns drop by 15d to £3/1/2 a week. The average wage for the six cities is £3/1/8 a week.

CONSTITUTION CRITICISED.

SYDNEY, January 28,

In a paper read at the Australian ' Institute of Political Science, Mr Menzies, Victorian Attorney-General, said that that portion of Section 51 of the industrial powers in the Commonwealth had created a “new engine of disorder.” It had broubht about a bitter industrial psychology, which tended to aggravate the industrial' discontent, caused extensive moral injury, and had done much to destroy the democracy of the union organisation. The only remedy was to give the Commonwealth power to legislate generally in all industrial matters.